From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3CFF7496.6050904@thales-bm.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 16:41:26 +0200 From: Julien Eyries MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: [Fwd: Re: kernel command line for CRAMFS root filesystem] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: kernel command line for CRAMFS root filesystem Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 16:40:33 +0200 From: Julien Eyries To: acurtis@onz.com References: i have never mounted it before . i am currently booting with initrd (good :-)) from my flash and it works fine( the commandline was : root=/dev/rd/0 ); but now i want to replace that with a cramfs (better :-)) . anyway, i know i can acess to the range (start 0xfe100000 - length 2MBytes) via my partition /dev/mtdblock/2 but if i try something like : root=/dev/mtdblock/2 then JFFS2 try to mount it as root filesystem and fails !!!!!! maybe i should add something to the commandline, in order to tell the kernel that /dev/mtdblock/2 contains a CRAMFS partition ?? Allen Curtis wrote: >>i have a cramfs image in flash, at address 0xfe100000 (length of image >>is 2MBytes). >>what is the kernel command line "root=..." to use this image as root >>filesystem ? >> > > What is the device name when you mount it from a bootp session? The name is > probably the same... > > -- Julien Eyries R&D engineer Thales Broadcast & Multimedia (ex-thomcast) email: julien.eyries@thales-bm.com fax: 33(0) 1 34 90 31 10 tel: 33(0) 1 34 90 31 01 -- Julien Eyries R&D engineer Thales Broadcast & Multimedia (ex-thomcast) email: julien.eyries@thales-bm.com fax: 33(0) 1 34 90 31 10 tel: 33(0) 1 34 90 31 01 ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/